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by Kay Schofield
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Having lost my daughter Helen four years ago, I reflect on the various chapters of her life. I recall when Helen was born and my emotions after I was told she had developmental difficulties. She grew up so quickly, attending what were then called “special schools”. My husband Mike and I did not...
by Marcia Stanhope, RN, DSN
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
With concise, focused coverage, Community Health Nursing in Canada, 3rd Edition introduces you to all of the necessary concepts, skills, and practice of community health nursing. This comprehensive text from leading nursing educators also addresses the increasing awareness of social justice and the...
Healthcare Delivery Reform and New Technologies
Organizational Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Healthcare delivery reform initiatives focus on improving the quality of patient care while also increasing the efficiency of existing healthcare programs. Healthcare Delivery Reform and New Technologies: Organizational Initiatives contains cross-disciplinary research on strategic initiatives for healthcare...
Designed to Adapt
Leading Healthcare in Challenging Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Dr. John Kenagy’s formula for saving healthcare one problem at a time is termed “Adaptive Design,” a set of methods, skills and tools designed to get healthcare back to the ideals of patient care by cultivating adaptability into the everyday work of the organization and its people.
Dr....
by Lawrence Roberts, M.A., M.F.A.
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
TABLE OF CONTENTS FORWARD PART A – The whys and how’s of reforming Health Care? I. So what’s the problem? II. How Obamacare was passed into Law? PART B - What has happen so far? III. Ten Titles/sections of Obamacare IV. Pros & Cons V. Implementation VI. Medicare and Medicaid reforms PART C - How...
The Decision Tree
How to make better choices and take control of your health
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
For all the talk about personalized medicine, our health care system remains a top-down, doctor-driven system where individuals are too often bit players in their own health decisions. In The Decision Tree, Thomas Goetz proposes a new strategy for thinking about health, one that applies cutting-edge...
ObamaCare and Beyond
A Second Look at Accessability and Affordability
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2013
My law office was in an old building and off the beaten path. A woman walked in one day with a look of concern on her face. Her name was Mary. With a diagnosis of late stage cancer, Mary was unable to work and had consequently lost her health insurance through her employer. Discusses...
by Lori-Ann Rickard
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2015
This box set bundles three important Easy Healthcare titles, including Healthcare Privacy, Choose Your Health Insurance, and Obamacare, plus the free bonus What You Need First.
Without a doubt, healthcare in the United States today is a challenge. Changes in the...
Applying Nursing Process
The Foundation for Clinical Reasoning
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Because principles of nursing process are the building blocks for all care models, the nursing process is the first model nurses need to learn to “think like a nurse.” This trusted resource provides the practical guidance needed to understand and apply each phase of the nursing process, with an...
Governing the New NHS
Issues and Tensions in Health Service Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
The new NHS is a very different organisation to the one set up 60 years ago. Two decades of reforms have introduced a market element, unprecedented transparency, patient choice, new incentives, devolved accountabilities and a host of new regulatory bodies. All these changes have made governance a...
by Georgia Kemp Caraway
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
What common baking ingredient can conceal white rings on furniture? (Crushed pecans.) How do you detect a repair in a pottery vase you want to buy? (Look at it under a black light.) Whats the best way to remove water damage from your great-grandfathers Bible? (Put it in your freezer.) Answers to these...
The Physician's Survival Guide for the Hospital
Let the Hospital Work for You
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2008
Doctors need hospitals and hospitals need doctors. Then why do they continue to communicate their needs to each other so badly? Why all the animosity, conflict, and mistrust?
In The Physician's Survival Guide for the Hospital, Dr. Samuel H. Steinberg, an experienced hospital administrator,...
The Patient Will See You Now
The Future of Medicine Is in Your Hands
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The essential guide by one of America's leading doctors to how digital technology enables all of us to take charge of our health
A trip to the doctor is almost a guarantee of misery. You'll make an appointment months in advance. You'll probably wait for several hours until you hear "the...
The Social Transformation of American Medicine
The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Considered the definitive history of the American healthcare system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved over the last two and a half centuries. How did the financially insecure medical profession...